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A characterization of BV and Sobolev functions via nonlocal functionals in metric spaces

Functional Analysis 2022-07-07 v1

Abstract

We study a characterization of BV and Sobolev functions via nonlocal functionals in metric spaces equipped with a doubling measure and supporting a Poincar\'e inequality. Compared with previous works, we consider more general functionals. We also give a counterexample in the case p=1p=1 demonstrating that unlike in Euclidean spaces, in metric measure spaces the limit of the nonlocal functions is only comparable, not necessarily equal, to the variation measure Df(Ω)\| Df\|(\Omega).

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@article{arxiv.2207.02488,
  title  = {A characterization of BV and Sobolev functions via nonlocal functionals in metric spaces},
  author = {Panu Lahti and Andrea Pinamonti and Xiaodan Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.02488},
  year   = {2022}
}